Hello, Mohlzahn, and thank you.
Here is a re-post of mine, which best sums up my opinions of god and or religion.
God/Religion: (Please note that when I was originally discussing this on a mainly-christian forum)
Religion is merely a way for humans to rationalize the things they either can't explain/justify as natural occurrences in life. I am an agnostic being raised in an extremely harsh catholic family. I'm lucky enough to have one rational parent, otherwise I would probably be shipped off to some private school where we do nothing but pray. Now, to put this as simply as possible, Christianity wants me to believe that an invisible alien magically injected his seed into a human, and when that human-alien hybrid died, he washed away all of our "sins" with his blood, but then was revived and sent back to his home planet, or "Heaven" To live with his father once again. And because of this, if we don't repent and wash the sins from our soul, when we die we will burn in a pit of eternal fire...When we're already dead.. And if we are cleansed of our sins when we die, our dead bodies are abducted, and somehow our dis-embodied soul is supposed to live there in bliss with other "holy" people.
That's just one example of main-stream religion (which is really just a hypothesis from my point of view), having so many variables it can't support it's self.
Not really working for me. Any of you?
Does god exist? In my eyes, it's not really possible. There are many more plausible theories/hypothesize(sp?).
Should 'god' effect our lives as much as it did? Again, to me, no. Individually, sure. But when you bring people together who feel strongly about their ways of thinking, it ends in violence, and hatred. Every time.
I have nothing against religion, if you are religious, happy, and not hurting anyone, have fun. It's really none of my business.
Non-Religious God belief:
The creation *Cough* Ignorance *Cough* of religion is what began creating "God Theories" Therefor, to claim to believe in some sort of non-specific deity or higher power beyond which it's existence cannot be proven is nothing short of a fleeting attempt at approval from their society. Trust me, I've been there.
Some of you may dis-agree, and I'm sorry if this offends you, but it's just the way I see the world.
Also, my apologies on the long post.
